Shoe fastener



G. N. GOUDY.

SHOE FASTENER. APPucATmN mEn1uNE24.1s1a. RENEwED Aue. 17.1921.

1,404,757, Patented Jan. 3l, 1922.

STABS SHOE FASTENER.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 31, 1922.

Application led .Tune 24, 1918, Serial No. 241,636. Renewed August 17, 1921. Sera1 No. 493,096.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE N. GOUDY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Forestbur in the county of Sanborn, State of South akota, have invented a new and useful Shoe Fastener; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to the art of fasteners, particularly adapted for use in connection with shoes, gloves and the like.

One of the objects of the invention is to provide an improved fastener of this kind, which is simple, efficient and practical in construction, and may be manufactured for a small cost and sold at a reasonable profit.

A further object of the invention is to provide a fastener, comprising two members pivotally united, one being permanently secured to one side of the upper of the shoe, and the other to be passed through an opening of the opposite side of the upper, whereby through the medium of a leverage action, a hook portion of the vstationary member may be pulled through the opening, holding the opposing overlapping parts of the upper together.

In practical fields the details of construction may necessitate alterations falling within the scope of what is claimed.

The invention comprises further features and combination of parts as hereinafter set forth shown in the drawings and claimed.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of a shoe, showing the upper equipped with the improved fastener.

Figure 2 is a sectional view on line 2.-2 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a sectional View, showing the lever in the act of drawing the hook of a stationary part of the fastener through the opening of one side of the upper of the shoe.

Figure 4t is a detail perspective view of the fastener on an enlarged scale.

Referring more especially tothe drawings, 1 and 2 designate two members of the fastener. The member 1 is constructed from a single length of steel wire, one end portion 8 of which is bent upon itself as shown at 4 to form an eye, which may be secured in any suitable manner to one side of the upper of the shoe 6, preferably by stitches or a rivet passing through the eye 5, as indicated at 7. The end portion of the bent part 3 may if desired be soldered or otherwise secured at 8 to the body of the wire of the member 1. As shown in plan view in Figure 3, the member 1 is substantially V-shaped, since it is bent upon itself as shown at 9, so that the arm 10 of the member 1 practically constitutes a hook. The greater part of this hook is iattened. The member 2 is constructed from a single length of steel wire, which is bent upon itself as shown at 11, so as to provide a pair of parallel arms 12. These arms as shown in Figure 3 are bent as indicated at 13 and 14 thereby constituting an irregular lever. rlhe extremities of the arms 12 are flattened, as indicated at 15, and by means of a pin 16 the hook or arm 10 of the member 1 is secured between the arms 12 of the member 2, whereby the lever may have a pivotal action. ln fastening the upper sides of the upper of the shoe, the lever is first inserted through the opening 17 of the side 18 of the upper, whereby the bend 13 of the lever may engage the crotch of the opening. By moving the lever in the direction of the arrow a, the crotch of the opening 17 may be cammed over the hook 10, in other words the hook 10 may be drawn through the opening, as shown in Figure 2, so that the crotch of the opening may engage the crotch adjacent the bend 9 of the member 1, thereby holding the opposite sides of the upper securely fastened together.

The invention having been set forth what is claimed as new and useful is The combination with a stationary member constructed from a single length of steel wire adapted to be bent upon itself to form an eye body adapted to be fastened to one side of the upper of a shoe and also adapted to be bent outwardly and rearwardly in the direction of the eye body at an acute angle to said eye body for forming an acutely extending arm, of a lever constructed from a single length of wirebent upon itself to form parallel arms, between the extremities of which arms the acutely disposed hook is pivoted, said lever being formed with bends forming obtusely dis-y posed portions whereby when' the end of the lever is passed through the eye of a shoe upper, said eye will engage the inner bend of said lever adjacent its pivotal point thereby preventing the slipping of said eye long- In testimony whereof have signed my tudlnally of .seld lever durlng a plvoted name ino thls svpeoloatlon 111 the presence of aetlon and also forming means whereby the two subsorlblng Wltnesses.

eye will be carried beyond the acutely ex- GEORGE N. GOUDY. tending arm and allowed to drop int-o the fitnessesz hook formed by said acutely extending arm CLYDE H. KING,

of the eye body. WM. BENNE'H. 

